{"id":120,"date":"2006-03-27T07:01:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=120"},"modified":"2006-03-27T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T15:06:21","slug":"krauthammer-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/krauthammer-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Krauthammer on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

This guy’s name is familiar to me, but I don’t know anything about him. I don’t even know if politically he’s conservative, independent, or liberal.<\/p>\n

I suppose the fact his piece is in Time magazine<\/a> says a lot about his political leanings.<\/p>\n

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Be that as it may, I think what he wrote that was published there yesterday is worth reading. Here are two paragraphs:<\/p>\n

We’re now at the dawn of an era in which an extreme and fanatical religious ideology, undeterred by the usual calculations of prudence and self-preservation, is wielding state power and will soon be wielding nuclear power.<\/p>\n

That will present the world with two futures. The first is Feynman’s vision of human destruction on a scale never seen. The second, perhaps after one or two cities are lost with millions killed in a single day, is a radical abolition of liberal democracy as the species tries to maintain itself by reverting to strict authoritarianism–a self-imposed expulsion from the Eden of post-Enlightenment freedom.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

I expect the second scenario to be closer to what’s in store. It fits the Left Behind<\/i> plot better. And it might even fit Biblical prophecy better.<\/p>\n

Now I lay me down to sleep….<\/p>\n

Except it’s too early in the day for that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This guy’s name is familiar to me, but I don’t know anything about him. I don’t even know if politically he’s conservative, independent, or liberal. I suppose the fact his piece is in Time magazine says a lot about his political leanings. Be that as it may, I think what he wrote that was published … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-1W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}